A Peculiar Magma “Wind” Exists Deep Beneath Panama

Dec 27,2021

An anomalous geochemical composition beneath Panama has been discovered by an international team of scientists – and they believed it did not form there. It formed over 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) away near the Galápagos islands, carried over thanks to a “Mantle Wind” that blows under the Earth’s crust.

The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests an interesting model. Hotter material coming from the Earth's deeper layer rises on the Galápagos plume, responsible for the volcanism and formation of the Galápagos archipelago. Once it begins to travel in the shallow mantle, some material also moves laterally, spreading all the way to Central America.

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